OLD TESTAMENT

2 Chronicles 19:8

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Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites, priests, and heads of the fathers’ households of Israel to give judgment for the LORD and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.

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Verse 8. And the. Hebrew “of the Lord, and for disputes among the people among themselves, ( Bible.) and they returned, (verse 4) or dwelt at Jerusalem.” Calmet.—Septuagint “to judge the inhabitants of,” and so forth Josephus (ix. 1.) says, “he returned.” Syr. “And being returned.… he exhorted.”

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